Social Encounter Party

The Social Encounter Party (PES) is a social conservative political party in Mexico that was founded in 2006 by Pentecostal pastor Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes. In July 2014, it obtained federal registry, having previously been mostly active in Baja California. The party included many strands of Christian humanist thinking and generally supported social conservatism, opposing same-sex marriage, abortion, and pornographic magazines while supporting Israeli settlements in the West Bank and consolidating the goods and services tax with the income tax. In 2018, the party formed an alliance with the Labor Party of Mexico and MORENA, and their candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador won the election with around 50% of the vote.